ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,099, issued on March 17, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).
"Information processing device and method" was invented by Ryohei Takahashi (Tokyo) and Mitsuhiro Hirabayashi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an information processing device and a method capable of more easily reproducing 3D data using spatial scalability.2D data obtained by two-dimensionally converting a point cloud representing an object having a three-dimensional shape as a set of points and corresponding to spatial scalability is encoded, a bitstream including a sub-bitstream obtained by encoding the point cloud correspond...